Unfortunatly for me dh just bought me a nice hm for Christmas. HOWEVER fortunatly my husband's HM is wayyyyyy old so he's lucking out and getting in on the great deal!

Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson

eshep

posted: 1/28/2007 at 11:40 AM

It's been a while since I bought mine but I paid less than $190 without a rebate. Try bizrate.com. You should be able to find someplace selling it at a decent price.

Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson

That price which I assume you saw for BuyERetail.com is the after-rebate price. It is a bit cheaper though.
I would much prefert o buy it from someone like Amazon.com that IS an authorized reseller and their after-rebate price is $209. When you factor in shipping, Amazon.com is only $10 more.
Here is Garmin's list of authorized on-line resellers:
http://www.garmin.com/cgi-bin/online/online?dealer_type=Consumer&SUBMIT=Show+Dealers

Do you know what difference it makes? Does it effect your warranty service or something? I didn't even think of this when I bought mine from RoadRunnerSports.com last year. I would have assumed that a major running supplier like that would be "official" but apparently it's not on the list! Oops!

Do you know what difference it makes? Does it effect your warranty service or something? I didn't even think of this when I bought mine from RoadRunnerSports.com last year. I would have assumed that a major running supplier like that would be "official" but apparently it's not on the list! Oops!

I've heard some people say that it affects your warranty, but I've heard about people that still got warranty coverage even though they didn't buy it from an authorized reseller.
There may be no or mininal risk involved, but I guess my point was that for $10 extra, I would go with an authorized reseller. Now, if the price difference were much larger, then it may make a difference.